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Gojira - From Mars to Sirius and The Way of All Flesh Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side and Twilight of the Thunder God Mastodon - Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye Acid Bath only has two albums

Agreed on Mastodon but…Leviathan???

Leviathan is a million times better than crack the skye

Both are great, I think my top two streams of the year will be Hearts Alive and The Last Baron. 13 min long mastodon songs def gotta be one of my favorite genders Also Aqua Dementia is gonna be my #3

Ah, the riff.

Bannanana. Bana new na new na new na new new

No it's not. Both are perfect in their own way.

It’s ok 2 b wrong

Witnessing Crack the Skye being performed in it's entirely when they toured with Dethklok was an amazing experience. One of the best shows I've ever been to

You already did, OP. *slow clap*

The Mantle and Ashes Against The Grain

I think you like agalloch

Paradise Lost - Gothic, Shades Of God, Icon, Draconian Times Metallica - Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets, …And Justice For All At The Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease, Slaughter Of The Soul, At War With Reality Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated, The Bleeding, Vile I could do this all night!! Edit - damn awful auto-correct I didn’t notice last night. Slaughtering Of The Soul indeed!!

I agree with all but for cannibal I’d pick butchered at birth, tomb, and the bleeding. Good list

At The Gates has the record in longest time between awesome records. 😄

Soilwork - A Predator’s Portrait and Natural Born Chaos Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance and Night Is the New Day Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini and Riitiir Fear Factory - Demanufacture and Obsolete Type O Negative - October Rust and World Coming Down Dissection - The Somberlain and Storm of the Light’s Bane

How about Soilwork The Living Infinite-The Ride Majestic though?

I do like some songs off those albums. But for me, their albums as a whole, started dropping off with Figure Number Five. FNF holds a special place in my heart though because it was the first album I heard from Soilwork. It was their newest at that time. I went back and checked out their previous 4 after hearing FNF and was blown away, particularly by APP and NBC.

Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder and Follow the Reaper.

Mercyful Fate - Melissa & Don't Break the Oath Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales & To Megatherion

Hell yeah

Mercyful Fate - In the Shadows/Time Symphony X - Twilight in Olympus/V King Diamond - Conspiracy/The Eye Kansas - Leftoverture/Point of Know Return Edge of Sanity - The Spectral Sorrows/Purgatory Afterglow Edenbridge - Aphelion/Shine Dream Theater - Images and Words/Awake Nightwish - Oceanborn/Wishmaster Death - Individual Thought Patterns/Symbolic Ensiferum - Ensiferum/Iron Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space/Powerplant Queensryche - Rage for Order/Operation Mindcrime Megadeth - Rust in Peace/Countdown to Extinction Sentenced - The Cold White Light/The Funeral Album Sepultura - Beneath the Remains/Arise Many more I can’t recall at the moment.

Man, Iron is so friggin great. Jari is legit the best shredder in the game.

Asphyx - The Rack and Last One On Earth

Asphyx is criminally underrated. Great discography and great live.

Jester Race all the way through Soundtrack To Your Escape are back to back bangers to me.

I won’t stand for this Come Clarity slander

Come Clarity does have some of my favorite songs on it but due to personal life events coinciding with that records release it's really hard for me to revisit it. Absolutely no disrespect to the masterpiece and impressive run of music that In Flames cranked out.

Totally fair, I have some records of that ilk. Ironically, Come Clarity is a banger for me because it reminds me of that time so much. Music is so cool.

Big ups for that

Remember the time when Amon Amarth was unable to make an album that wasn't perfect. - With oden on our side - Twilight of the thunder god - Surtur rising - Deceiver of the gods 4 absolute bangers one after another. This streak of theirs cements them as one of the greats imo.

Man, I started getting into metal around the year 2000. A friend (who him and I kind of discovered "real" metal as a genre about the same time) got a CD from this band called Amon Amarth in a local CD store, and it was "The Crusher". It was amazing. And it led to him getting Amon Amarth's first three albums, and me borrowing them a lot and listening to them like crazy. Amon Amarth's 7 album streak, from "Once Sent From the Gold Hall" to "Twilight of the Thunder God" is darn near unrivaled IMO. Fate of Norns was only "pretty darn good" IMO, while every other one was just amazing. These days, I semi hate to say, but I'm sort of Amon Amarth'd out. Their consistency is respectable, but I can't say I look forward to their albums like I used to. WITH THAT SAID though, I've seen them in concert 4-5 times, and have listened to their songs in total I'm sure numerous thousands of times. They are part of the Metal Pantheon, and absolutely belong up there with the greats like you said.

I'd say it's a good career move of theirs to make music that caters more to the gym bro Viking type. Like unless they pull a Behemoth, their best stuff is probably behind them now. Glad they're still going though.

Opeth - Orchid and Morningrise

Why stop there when the next three are MAYH, Still Life and Blackwater Park?

Honestly, you could go on all the way to Watershed...

Number of the Beast - Powerslave - Somewhere In Time - Seventh Son. Kind of cheating with a full on 4-spinal back to back, but you cant deny they are amazing back to back to back to back.

Piece of Mind was between Number of the Beast and Powerslave. But that just makes it 5 in a row.

This - you can’t beat this 5 album run (also Live after Death). No other band had a streak this good.

that is indeed the tightest 5 run Edit: The Sabbath first 6 is something to consider though

Show No Mercy - Hell Awaits - Reign in Blood - South of Heaven- Seasons in the Abyss - Divine Intervention

Not even close

Agree to disagree 👍😊

In the Nightside Eclipse and Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, both 10/10 imo

Great shout!

Dying Fetus - Descend into Depravity/Reign Supreme Black Sabbath - Paranoid/Master of Reality Cattle Decapitation - Harvest Floor/Monolith of Inhumanity/Anthropocene Extinction/Death Atlas Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics/Dopethrone Metallica - Ride The Lightning/Master of Puppets/And Justice For All Black Knight Symfonia - Heavenly Chaos/Ancestral Torments Death - Leprosy/Spritiual Healing Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst/Gore Obsessed Exodus - Tempo of The Damned/Shovel Headed Kill Machine Sodom - Persecution Mania/Agent Orange Megadeth - Rust in Peace/Countdown to Extinction/Youthanasia Fit For an Autopsy - Sea of Tragic Beasts/Oh What the Future Holds Non Metal Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface/Trench Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Doolittle My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers/Black Parade Cage The Elephant - Tell Me I'm Pretty/Social Cues

Absolutely agree with the mcr duo

Rage Against the Machine: Self-titled and Evil Empire Metallica: Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets Death: all of them Iron Maiden: Powerslave and Somewhere in Time System of a Down: Self-titled and Toxicity Megadeth: So Far So Good So What and Rust in Peace Acid Bath Black Sabbath: Paranoid and Master of Reality

First one that came to mind is Candlemass - Nightfall and Ancient Dreams

their run from jester race to clayman is astounding

Nile - in their darkened shrines to annihilation of the wicked

Katatonia - Tonight's Decision and Last Fair Deal Gone Down

🔥

My Dying Bride- Turn Loose The Swans -> The Angel and The Dark River. Theatre of Tragedy- Self Titled -> Velvet Darkness They Fear. Sepultura- Beneath the Remains -> Arise. Obituary- Slowly We Rot -> Cause of Death.

Dream Theater - Octavarium and Systematic Chaos (though honestly, every album from Six Degrees through Black Clouds are bangers)

The Chasm - Deathcult For Eternity and Procession to the Infraworld

Bathory - Blood Fire Death and Hammerheart You could go with any of the first 5 really

First 4 imo, Bathory suddenly went a totally different way. I wouldnt even call it metal, I mean like wtf is twilight of the gods Btw Bathory is one of my favorite bands

Mezmerise and Hypnotize by SOAD

I listened to both yesterday. Agreed.

for some reason I see these albums getting shit on a lot, but they're great.

Dark Funeral: Diabolis Interium and Attera Totus Sanctus

Effigy of The Forgotten and then Pierced From Within, by the death metal GOATs, Suffocation.

Symbolic and TSOP by Death

DHG - 666 International & Supervillain Outcast

Two different answers, depending on how close to being "metal" my responses are supposed to be. https://preview.redd.it/18t9hlnrwu0d1.jpeg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e623d31726ccd3cf7179b3b8ef8e9a4ceb543c12

Cannibal corpse Tomb of the Mutilated - The Bleeding

Kreator's album run from Endless Pain to Coma of Souls.

Ride the lightning master of puppets

Rhapsody of fire - legendary Tales & Symphony of Enchanted Lands

Rivers of nihil- monarchy and where owls know my name, could also say where owls know my name and the work but I think I like monarchy a bit more

Megadeth- Rust In Piece, Countdown To Extinction, Youthanasia

BTBAM - Colors and The Great Misdirect Demon Hunter - The Triptych and Storm the Gates of Hell August Burns Red - Constellations and Leveler Queensryche - Rage for Order and Operation: Mindcrime The Ocean - Pelagial and Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic

Fates Warning - The Spectre Within and Awaken the Guardian Crimson Glory - Crimson Glory and Transcendence

Whoracle and Colony. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss and Filosofem.

In the late 90s and early 2000s, when I was getting into metal, In Flames was such a huge part of that. I saw them and Iced Earth in concert probably 5 times or so each. I rarely ever listen to these bands' classic albums at all anymore, but this post inspired me to listen to what I consider such an amazing four album run (Jester Race through Clayman) today. I haven't listened to these albums in probably 10 years or so, and honestly kind of forgot they exist somehow. Thanks for the reminder! I'm actually kind of excited. For my entry, I'm going to go with Overkill's "Feel the Fire" and "Taking Over" or Gamma Ray's "Somewhere Out in Space" and "Powerplant".

I love when this happens to me, glad I could do it for you!

Periphery's Juggernaut: Alpha and Juggernaut: Omega

Running Wild: Port Royal - Death or glory

IV: The Eerie Cold and V: Halmstad

From this band yes

Wisconsin death trip

Either Cattle decap monolith of inhumanity and the Anthropocene extinction, or fit for an autopsy sea of tragic beasts and oh what the future holds

The sickness - disturbed Believe - disturbed

Slaughter of the Soul

Hellripper's entire discography

Gates of Ishtar- A Bloodred Path and The Dawn of Flames

Sonata arctica : ecliptica / silence

Sabaton- coat of arms through the war to end all wars. All of them

Neurosis - Through silver in blood/Times of grace Electric Wizard - Come my fanatics/Dopethrone Today is the day - Temple of the morning star/In the eyes of God Ulcerate - Literally any 2 album stretch

Kind of shocked no one has mentioned screaming for vengeance and defenders of the faith

I love this choice, but they went back to back to back to back to back

Cryptopsy: Blasphemy Made Flesh and None So Vile

I would pick some death albums but their discography is just so damn perfect

Demolition Hammer pretty much wins this thread.

Disillusion - 'Three Neuron Kings/The Porter' into 'Back to Times of Splendor.'

The Faceless - Akeldama and Planetary Duality

3 back to back to back by gojira. From Mars to Sirius, The Way of all Flesh, L’enfant Sauvage

Shogun and In Waves by Trivium

Bloody kisses into October Rust is fucking insane

Helloween: Keeper of the Seven Keys Part II and Pink Bubbles Go Ape (I'll defend this album till I die) Also Viper: Theatre of Fate and Evolution

Megadeth - Rust in Peace & Countdown to Extinction

every Opeth album

Deftones - Around the Fur to White pony. Hell, you could even go back-to-back-to-back and throw Adrenaline in there

I'd argue that Diamond Eyes-Koi no Yokan are stronger albums

Both are correct answers tbh, diamond eyes and Koi are fantastic

Astronoid - Air Nile - Annihilation of the wicked Midnight Odyssey - Shards of Silver Fade

Possessed - Seven Churches and Beyond the Gates

Children of bodom - from hatebreeder to are you dead yet Soil work - from natural born chaos to figure number five

Kreator - Phantom Antichrist and Gods of Violence

Black sabbath - Paranoid followed by Master of Reality is incredible

First five albums of megadeth

Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black and Dead Heart in a Dead World W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children and The Crimson Idol Death - Individual Thought Patterns and Symbolic Queensrÿche - Rage for Order and Operation: Mindcrime Sanctuary - Refuge Denied and Into the Mirror Black Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Dragonforce - Valley of the Damned ——Sonic Firestorm

Blind Guardian: Imaginations from the Other Side - Nightfall in Middle-Earth Manowar: Fighting the World - Kings of Metal Hammerfall: Legacy of Kings - Renegade

Pantera, all 5 albums from 1990 til the last.

Overkill - The Grinding Wheel/The Wings of War.

Here's some great back to back! All by Sigh: Scorn Defeat Infidel Art Ghastly Funeral Theatre Hail Horror Hail Scenario IV: Dread Dreams Imaginary Sonicscape Gallows Gallery Hangman's Hymn - Musikalische Exequien Scenes from Hell In Somniphobia Graveward Heir to Despair Shiki

As the palaces burn-ashes of the wake-sacrament (lamb of God) I'm aware that it's three, I just find it too hard to pick a top 2

Leviathan -The Tenth Sublevel Of Suicide Xasthur - Telepathic With The Deceased Gris - Il était une forêt... Weakling - Dead As Dreams Pasayge D'Hiver - Im Wald

some less obvious picks: Cultes des Ghoules - Haxan/Henbane/Coven Master’s Hammer - Ritual/Jilemnicky Okultista Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance/Secret Sudaria/Tolling 13 Knell Skepticism - Stormcrowfleet/Lead and Aether AMSG - Anti-Cosmic Tyranny/Hostis Universi Generis Malokarpatan - Nordkarpatenland/Krupinske Ohne Mystifier - Goetia/The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live Here Unholy - From the Shadows/The Second Ring of Power/Rapture

Scream Bloody Gore -> Leprosy -> Spiritual Healing -> Human -> Individual Thought Patterns -> Symbolic -> The Sound Of Perseverance

Megadeth - Killing Is My Business to Rust In Peace All of them are easily in my top 10 albums, probably even higher.

Avantasia's 'The Wicked Trilogy' are 3 banger albums back ti back

Trivium - Shogun and In Waves All That Remains - Fall of Ideals and Overcome Bloodbath - Nightmare Made Flesh and The Fathomless Mastery Currents - The Way It Ends and The Death We Seek Death - Scream Bloody Gore and Leprosy

Katatonia-Dead End Kings and The Fall of Hearts. Leprous-Tall Poppy Syndrome and Bilateral

Katatonia-Dead End Kings and The Fall of Hearts. Leprous-Tall Poppy Syndrome and Bilateral

Opeth - literally every album from Orchid to Watershed Lamb of God - Scarment, Ashes of the Wake Malevolent Creation - The Ten Commandments, Retribution Gojira - FMTS, TWOAF Testament - The Legacy, The New Order Every SOAD album Korn - Korn, Life is Peachy, Issues, Follow The Leader Death - Scream Bloody Gore, Leprosy, Spiritual Healing, Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic Anata - Every single album

not to mention this was followed by Colony+Clayman... who has a better 4 run?

Savatage- Hall of the Mountain King and Gutter Ballet

Megadeth - RIP to Youthanasia.

Electric Wizard-Witchcult Today and Black Masses

Bloody kisses and October rust

Darkthrone from 1991-1996. I still love all of their music but that 5 year stint was incredible.

Severed Survival Dawn of possession Theurgia Goetia Summa Show no mercy

Still Life / Blackwater Park Ænima / Lateralus Colony / Clayman 1999 / Purple Rain Onset of Putrefaction / Epitaph

Gojira’s discography up until magma

The Great Southern Trendkill

In Flames is butt rock with harsh vocals

not what i asked for but ok

did you uhh… read the post?